Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANScience is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANThe cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
CARL SAGAN